It Has a Name: Operation Broken Trust

Apparently, many of the recent financial fraud actions in the news have been part of a nationwide operation organized by the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force to target investment fraud: Operation Broken Trust.

“To date, the operation has involved enforcement actions against 343 criminal defendants and 189 civil defendants for fraud schemes that harmed more than 120,000 victims throughout the country. The operation’s criminal cases involved more than $8.3 billion in estimated losses and the civil cases involved estimated losses of more than $2.1 billion. … Starting on Aug. 16, 2010, within a three-and-a-half month period, Operation Broken Trust involved 231 criminal cases and 60 civil enforcement actions. Eighty-seven defendants have been sentenced to prison, including several sentences of more than 20 years in prison.”

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